Wise Choice in a Terrible Dilemma

Updated Sept. 21, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

In response to Patrick J. Buchanan's Sept. 10 Letter to Editor "We Have Not Learned from WWII ":

Afflicted by an acute case of tunnel vision, Mr. Buchanan believes that the cause of Britain's declaration of war against Nazi Germany was its desire to control "who ruled Poland," a place in which Britain had "no vital interest." Accordingly, Britain would have done much better if Hitler had been permitted to...